Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness..

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situatio….

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery..

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite..

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you h….

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the c….

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring ….

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I h….

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism..

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We m….

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library..

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command..

Hope is only the love of life..

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self..

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, general….

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful..

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities..

Almost everything comes from almost nothing..

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence..

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair..

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health..